A.M. Roundup: Mask requirement to prevent flu

Good morning! This hazy/cloudy weather system continues, but the temperature should be warm enough. Gov. Andrew Cuomo is in that amorphous “New York City area” with no announced public schedule. At 11 a.m. in Syracuse, the state Senate will hold a hearing on cash-strapped municipalities. Here are this morning’s headlines…

Health care workers who don’t get a flu vaccine will have to wear surgical masks while near patients, new state regulations will mandate. (TU)

Gov. Andrew Cuomo will greet Barack Obama when he arrives in Buffalo later this week. Cuomo will skip the opening of the state fair, instead sending Lt. Gov. Bob Duffy. It doesn’t seem that Cuomo will join Obama on his bus tour, which should encounter protesting hydrofracking opponents in Binghamton. (TU/Post-Standard)

Tom Precious: That Cuomo will attend an event with Obama is hardly surprising. Indeed, it would have made news if Obama, a Democrat, were to make a bus trip across parts of upstate without at least an appearance with the Democratic governor of the state.//The trip comes as Cuomo continues to find his name mentioned in national media circles as a potential 2016 presidential candidate. That speculation will leave any assortment of pundits on all sides watching for any gestures, smiles, hugs or shout-outs given to Cuomo on the airport tarmac by Obama, especially at a time when his former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, is also said to be mulling a possible White House run in 2016. (BN)

You can get tickets to see Obama speak in Buffalo in a lottery that opens this morning. (BN)

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said he will renounce his Canadian citizenship. (WP)

Happy Birthday to…

Jordan Carleo-Evangelist and Dori Marlin

What you missed yesterday…

Soft money charts, courtesy of Common Cause … an invitation to Rep. Chris Gibson’s latest fundraiser … Kathleen Rice’s invitation to have lobbyists display her campaign signs … and a poll found support for legalizing sparklers.